Japan fears its becoming a base for hackers.
[Daily Yomiuri On-Line] (4.29.98) To fill in legal loopholes
that have caused an increase in unauthorized computer access,
the National Police Agency has set up a group of experts to
study how to prevent Internet crimes.
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The Japan Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center
has been studying cases of unauthorized access through the Net,
and found a total of 644 from the time of the center's
establishment in October 1996 to last month.
Meanwhile, police uncovered 101 high-tech crimes in 1997,
three times as many as in the previous year.
The NPA hopes to implement laws prohibiting and penalizing
unauthorized access through the computer network.